2022

Emiliano Pablo Ravera, Adam Rozumalski Gait & Posture Introduction: Spasticity in children with cerebral palsy (CP) can produce an increase in muscle activity with unknown consequences in muscle energy expenditure. Selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) is shown to significantly reduce spasticity. However, Zaino et al. (2020) showed that changes in energy consumption following SDR are not […]

Emiliano Pablo Ravera and Adam Rozumalski Gait & Posture Introduction: Spasticity in children with cerebral palsy (CP) can produce an increase in muscle activity with unknown consequences in muscle energy expenditure. Selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) is shown to significantly reduce spasticity [Chen2019]. However, Zaino et al. (2020) showed that changes in energy consumption following SDR

Emiliano Pablo Ravera, Marcos José Crespo, Adam Rozumalski Journal of Biomechanics Abstract Children with pathological movement patterns like crouch gait present with excessive knee and hip flexion during stance phase due to multiple factors. A good treatment requires that the primary factor is reduced or eliminated to optimise the relationship between muscle energy expenditure and